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By: greg gibbs https://louisproyect.org/2017/02/04/fordham-sds/#comment-327401
Sat, 11 Feb 2017 17:42:15 +0000http://louisproyect.org/?p=15624#comment-327401I was in SDS and PL during the WSA and will look at the documentary. Re: the issue of different group’s strategies, I remember a meeting on the Minneapolis campus of the SWP, PL/SDS and a radical group that promoted cooperative assemblies as decision making methods on campus. We were fighting about what tactic to use. None of the tactics were mutually exclusive, but each group argued that theirs was the only one. No agreement was reached of course. No joint meeting ever happened again. Typical.
Oh, and Hi Earl…
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By: Earl Silbar https://louisproyect.org/2017/02/04/fordham-sds/#comment-327359
Sat, 11 Feb 2017 00:00:21 +0000http://louisproyect.org/?p=15624#comment-327359I’m motivated to get and show this, thanks, Louis. Also, John Levin and I (both former PLers active in SDS) are collecting articles by former active WSA SDSers for a book on PL’s student work from Miners’ strike support, the Cuba trips in ’63-4, May 2nd Movement and up to the end of PL’s SDS. Warts and all.

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By: Bert Schultz https://louisproyect.org/2017/02/04/fordham-sds/#comment-327220
Sun, 05 Feb 2017 05:23:27 +0000http://louisproyect.org/?p=15624#comment-327220Oh, I also want to add that this documentary is on DVD, and I would be happy to sell one to you, and also provide information about licensing screenings for college classes. The DVD has a version with Spanish subtitles. You can get more information about the movie at http://www.fordhamsds.org . Sorry for this commercial.
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By: Bert Schultz https://louisproyect.org/2017/02/04/fordham-sds/#comment-327219
Sun, 05 Feb 2017 04:03:50 +0000http://louisproyect.org/?p=15624#comment-327219Thanks Louis, this is a wonderful review of my movie! Although I did not understand it at the time, I now understand that SWP’s role as a builder of the mass movement was complementary to the SDS campus-based occupation strategy. I think there is a lesson there for the Marxist left. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and formerly existing socialism we should all be a little humble about our understanding of how social change works. I tried to convey that in the documentary.
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By: davidbyrnemcdonaldiii https://louisproyect.org/2017/02/04/fordham-sds/#comment-327211
Sat, 04 Feb 2017 19:13:51 +0000http://louisproyect.org/?p=15624#comment-327211Reblogged this on David McDonald.
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By: Glenn https://louisproyect.org/2017/02/04/fordham-sds/#comment-327209
Sat, 04 Feb 2017 18:26:59 +0000http://louisproyect.org/?p=15624#comment-327209I saw the film at the National Writers Union headquarters last year. It is a fascinating documentary that brought me back to being in SDS at SUNY Stony Brook. Like Fordham SDS, we did a number of good things and made plenty of mistakes, which is par for the course when you’re young.
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